#formicidae — Public Fediverse posts

#FungiFriday: This carpenter ant (_Camponotus_) nest has a fancy awning.

#bugstodon #insects #ants #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

#FungiFriday: This carpenter ant (_Camponotus_) nest has a fancy awning.

#bugstodon #insects #ants #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

#FungiFriday: This carpenter ant (_Camponotus_) nest has a fancy awning.

#bugstodon #insects #ants #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

#FungiFriday: This carpenter ant (_Camponotus_) nest has a fancy awning.

#bugstodon #insects #ants #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.

#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae

It has been a while... so have some ants!

I believe these are Red Harvester Ants taken near Lake Hefner in Oklahoma

#Ants #Insects #Pogonomyrmex #barbatus #Oklahoma #Formicidae #Photography #Nature #Harvester

Observed some #FarmerAnts herding #aphids on morning walk. These farmer #ants have a special #symbiotic relationship with aphids.

#Learn more:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-and-their-aphid-herds

My video of the farmer ants, hard at work:
https://youtube.com/shorts/NqI6hVYnoPQ?si=96nXBtYyO4LjeYVc

#nature #SaanichParks #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #GorgePark #YYJ #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #Wsanec #PNW #insects #Formicidae #Hymenoptera #entomology #WorkerAnts #NatureVideos

I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.

I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!

#bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid

i have 2 jobs to do and only enough time left for 1 of them but i just had to pop in to mention this absolute banger of a paper title

"28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants"

by William C. Beckerson, Courtney Krider, Umar A. Mohammad & Charissa de Bekker in _Animal Behaviour_ (in press) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.06.011 :ClosedAccess:

#ants #parasitism #fungi #sporespondence #Ophiocordyceps #Formicidae #Camponotus